Red

Album: Red (2012)
Charted: 22 6
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  • Loving him is like
    Driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street
    Faster than the wind
    Passionate as sin
    Ending so suddenly
    Loving him is like
    Trying to change your mind once you're already flying through the free fall
    Like the colors in autumn, so bright
    Just before they lose it all

    Losing him was blue like I'd never known
    Missing him was dark grey, all alone
    Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met
    But loving him was red (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    (Re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    Loving him was red (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    (Re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)

    Touching him was like
    Realizing all you ever wanted was right there in front of you
    Memorizing him was as
    Easy as knowing all the words to your old favorite song
    Fighting with him was like
    Trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer
    Regretting him was like
    Wishing you never found out that love could be that strong

    Losing him was blue like I'd never known
    Missing him was dark grey, all alone
    Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met
    But loving him was red (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    Oh, red (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    Burning red (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    (Re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)

    Remembering him comes in flashbacks
    And echoes
    Tell myself it's time now
    Gotta let go
    But moving on from him is impossible
    When I still see it all in my head
    In burning red
    Burning it was red

    Oh, losing him was blue like I'd never known
    Missing him was dark grey, all alone
    Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met
    'Cause loving him was red (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    Yeah, yeah, red (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    Oh, burning red (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    (Re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)

    And that's why he's spinning 'round in my head (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    Comes back to me, burning red (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    Yeah, yeah (re-e-e-ed, re-e-e-ed)
    His love was like
    Driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street Writer/s: Taylor Alison Swift
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Rick from West Chester, PaThis is a tremendous song, and maybe the best song video ever. Maybe it's derivative, but all the analogies to colors are just fantastic for an intense but doomed relationship. I would go to see a Taylor Swift concert just on the basis of the Red video.
  • Camille from Toronto, OhThe opening notes of this song put me in the mind of "Sara" by Fleetwood Mac.
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